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A year of non-Latin script domain names
- bbg 15y agoIt's been a year already, and still I don't think I've ever visited a non-Latin-script URL. You would think the web would be the end of parochialism.
- ujjvala 15y agoWhat would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.
- codelion 15y agoI don't think they would let . be part of beginning or ending of the domain name.
- squeed 15y agoNot exactly. There are already IDN TLDs in existence. More specifically, the "." is still a separator. Any component of the domain name can independently have xn-- and it will be interpreted as Punycode. Today you could register ujjvala.السعودية and it would be completely valid.
- aw3c2 15y agoWhere do you live? Do you use non-latin characters every day? Do you read langauges that use non-latin characters?
- veidr 15y agoAs another anecdotal data point, I visit non-Latin URLs almost every day working in Tokyo. For example, http://www.amazon.co.jp/自転車-カテゴリー別/b/ref=sa_menu_bic9?node=15337751 http://www.amazon.co.jp/自転車-カテゴリー別/b/ref=sa_menu_bic9?node=1... Although I can't really figure out why they bother localizing that one component of their URL, when they have all that gibberish-in-any-language crap at the end. That is just an internationalized resource identifier (IRI), which is a different thing--and more widely supported--than an internationalized domain name (IDN). I too seldom use those in practice. Because the part of the URL after the actual host/domain doesn't involve the DNS system, progress was more quickly made there. More info: http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/ http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/
- lowglow 15y agoAm I the only one that feels this move to non-Latin domain names is a bad idea? People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface for seemingly disparate systems. We started out fine, but now we're moving towards separating our system. We've had a uniform language that the world can adopt for communication across the web, but now we're going to create seemingly impossible to reach sites because we don't have a special character keyboard. Why anyone would think this is a great idea to "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me. Can someone shed some light? Am I missing something?
- Canopy 15y agoIf you cannot type the Arabic URL, there are chances you don't need to. Maybe you'd want to follow a link and read the page using a translator, but not type the URL. The non latin URL is totally coherent with the freedom to have a non latin content and, ultimately, some web users knowing only languages without latin letters.
- rimantas 15y ago> People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface > for seemingly disparate systems. The world is bigger than US and ASCII is not enough for all. > Why anyone would think this is a great idea to > "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me. Why? To have domain name in other languages. Or do you assume the web is English-only? If my favorite basketball club is "Žalgiris" why should it be zalgiris.lt instead of žalgiris.lt? And you don't know how to type in some specific URL chances are that you won't be interested in site's content anyway.
- dagw 15y agoAlso removing those 'strange' dots and dashes from a word can in many languages leave you with a new valid word, with a completely different meaning.
- lawn 15y agoFor reference a couple of years ago some county or similar here in Sweden named Hörå had their website as www.hora.se, but that actually means whore here. Now we can have our 'strange' dots though which is a good thing.